Nerdnosity alert!
Jun. 22nd, 2004 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grammargirlToday's Words of the DayWeekThingy, brought to you by The Disease of London: Or A New Discovery of the SCORVEY, 1675:
Pungitive: Having a pricking or stinging quality; sharp, keen, pungent.
Fuliginous: Covered or blackened with soot. Chiefly in humorously bombastic use.
Scorbutic: Of or pertaining to scurvy; symptomatic of or proceeding from scurvy; of the nature of scurvy. Of a patient: Affected with scurvy.
Inosculation: The action of inosculating; the opening of two vessels of an animal body, or of a vegetable, into each other; anastomosis; junction by insertion; hence, applied to the similar junction of fibres, and generally to any branch-system; also to the junction of solid parts which fit into each other, and generally, to the passing of one thing into another.
Turgency: The condition or quality of swelling or being turgent; a swollen or turgid state.
And, as an added bonus, The Word of the DayWeekThingy found in said document that, according to the OED Online, does not actually exist:
Alcalious
I leave it up to you, dear readers, to invent a sufficently creative definition.
Pungitive: Having a pricking or stinging quality; sharp, keen, pungent.
Fuliginous: Covered or blackened with soot. Chiefly in humorously bombastic use.
Scorbutic: Of or pertaining to scurvy; symptomatic of or proceeding from scurvy; of the nature of scurvy. Of a patient: Affected with scurvy.
Inosculation: The action of inosculating; the opening of two vessels of an animal body, or of a vegetable, into each other; anastomosis; junction by insertion; hence, applied to the similar junction of fibres, and generally to any branch-system; also to the junction of solid parts which fit into each other, and generally, to the passing of one thing into another.
Turgency: The condition or quality of swelling or being turgent; a swollen or turgid state.
And, as an added bonus, The Word of the DayWeekThingy found in said document that, according to the OED Online, does not actually exist:
Alcalious
I leave it up to you, dear readers, to invent a sufficently creative definition.
